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U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments

Oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States, presented by Oyez, a multimedia judicial archive at the IllinoisTech Chicago-Kent College of Law.

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Ministry of Defense and Support for Armed Forces of...

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2009/01/12

A case in which the Court held that the defendant's assets in question were not "blocked" under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 and therefore could not be attached to satisfy his judgment against Iran.

Ashcroft v. Iqbal

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/10

A case in which the Court found that high-ranking government officials were not liable for unconstitutional acts by subordinate officials.

AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/10

A case in which the Court held that a company does not violate the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) or Title VII when it denies retirement benefits to women who took a temporary disability leave while pregnant when the leave was taken before the PDA came into effect.

Cone v. Bell

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/09

A case in which the Court found that the petitioner was entitled to federal habeas corpus review due to suppression of material evidence, notwithstanding that habeas reviewed had already been presented twice at the state court level.

Arizona v. Johnson

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/09

A case in which the Court held that police may lawfully search an individual during a routine traffic stop if they believe him to be armed and dangerous, even if they had no reason to believe he was involved in criminal activity when he was searched.

Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. LinkLine Communications

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/08

A case in which the Court held that a "price squeezing" claim cannot be brought under Section 2 of the Sherman Act when the defendant is not under a duty to sell to the plaintiff in the first place.

Shinseki v. Sanders

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/08

A case in which the Court found that the lower court's framework for evaluating VA (Veterans' Affairs) notice errors conflicted with the established law that the Veterans Court "take due account of the rule of the prejudicial error."

Haywood v. Drown

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/03

A case in which the Court found that prohibiting civil claims against correction officers in their official capacities violated the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Williams

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/03

A case which the Court dismissed as improvidently granted.

Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/02

A case in which the Court found that a claim filed under Title IX for violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth Amendment does not preclude the use of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 which protects against the deprivation of any rights guaranteed by the Constitution and federal law.

Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, Inc.

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/02

A case in which the Court found that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was permitted to use a cost-benefit analysis while setting national performance standards for cooling water intake structures.

Kansas v. Colorado

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/01

A case in which the Court held that expert witness fees should be the same when brought in front of the Supreme Court and the federal district courts.

14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/12/01

A case in which the Court held that arbitration clauses in employment contracts are enforceable as a matter of federal law.

Pleasant Grove City v. Summum

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/11/12

A case in which the Court held that a city's refusal to place an organization's monument in a public park is not a violation the organization's First Amendment rights.

Bell v. Kelly

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/11/12

A case which the Court dismissed regarding whether a court may determine if a defendant suffered from ineffective assistance of counsel when his lawyer failed to introduce witness testimony that may have reduced the defendant's sentence from death to life in prison.

Chambers v. United States

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/11/10

A case in which the Court found that the "failure to report" crime does not satisfy the Armed Career Criminals Act's (ACCA) "crime of violence" definition.

Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/11/10

A case in which the Court found that a state forensic analyst's lab report prepared for use in a criminal prosecution is subject to the demands of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause.

United States v. Hayes

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/11/10

Negusie v. Holder

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/11/05

A case in which the Court held that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) incorrectly interpreted provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) from a mistaken legal premise.

Van de Kamp v. Goldstein

U.S. Supreme Court 2008 Term Arguments ·

2008/11/05

A case in which the Court reaffirmed its holding in Imbler, stating that officers of the court (including federal prosecutors) are immune from liability "for actions intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process."

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